Nghe An: Early Spring meeting with agencies and units of the Transport sector

Attending the meeting were Mr. Huynh Thanh Dien - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; representatives of the Department of Transport and central and local transport agencies and units.

Outstanding results

At the ceremony, on behalf of the provincial leaders, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Huynh Thanh Dien said: In 2018, the transport sector has comprehensively, synchronously and drastically deployed tasks and solutions to implement the industry's development plan goals and achieved some outstanding results in various fields.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Huynh Thanh Dien spoke at the ceremony. Photo: Thanh Le

Specifically, the industry has attracted many capital sources, implemented investment in the construction of many large traffic works with spillover effects, which are the driving force for socio-economic development. The management of traffic infrastructure has been strengthened with many synchronous solutions to improve the efficiency of exploiting the traffic infrastructure system.

Notably, the completion and putting into use of the eastern service road project of the overpass project at the intersection of National Highway 48E with the North-South railway and National Highway 1; the restoration of routes serving the construction of the road connecting N5 Road of the Southeast Economic Zone to Hoa Son (Do Luong); the construction of Bac Vinh Bus Station, Yen Thanh Bus Station; Port No. 5 of Cua Lo Port; Repairing and supplementing the road surface drainage system at urgent locations on national highways; the completion of the road component of Provincial Road 537B of the LRAMP project.

Checking Vinh - Cua Lo Avenue. Photo: Thanh Le

The industry is also implementing the construction of Ben Quan bridge on National Highway 46C; focusing on speeding up the progress of the traffic project connecting Vinh - Cua Lo, Muong Xen - Ta Do - Khe Kien road section Km0-km7, expanding National Highway 15A...

In 2018, the Department of Transport advised the Provincial People's Committee to submit to the Ministry of Transport to convert 43.5 km of provincial roads to national highways, and advised the Provincial People's Committee to convert 160 km of district roads to provincial roads. The total cost of management and maintenance of roads directly managed by the Department of Transport in 2018 was 415,973 billion VND.

Along with that, the State management of transportation has had positive changes in both quality and quantity in management, operation, service and achieved outstanding results compared to before. Types of transportation: road, air, rail, inland waterway are maintained and developed, basically meeting the travel needs of the people.

In addition, the Department has implemented many solutions, creating breakthroughs in training, testing and granting driving licenses. Road motor vehicle inspection is carried out on modern equipment, basically meeting inspection needs, ensuring inspection quality. Implementing administrative reform in the direction of publicity, transparency, reducing hassle, ensuring convenience and good service for the people.

Continue to create breakthroughs

Speaking at the ceremony, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Huynh Thanh Dien said: It has become a tradition that at the beginning of the New Year, Nghe An province organizes a Spring Meeting with agencies and units of the Central and local transport sector located in the area. This is an opportunity for businesses, provincial leaders and state management agencies to meet, exchange and review the results achieved, as well as those not achieved in the past year.

Intelligent Traffic Operation Center - a breakthrough in administrative reform of the transport industry. Photo: Thanh Le

According to the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, the results that Nghe An province achieved last year had great contributions from businesses and units in the transport sector.

Emphasizing that in 2019, the province's tasks are heavy, in the context of many difficulties and challenges, requiring efforts to achieve high targets in all fields, completing the goals set out in the Resolution of the 18th Provincial Party Congress. At the same time, the province continues to implement many works and projects, especially key projects on schedule such as Vinh - Cua Lo Boulevard; Cua Hoi bridge project, coastal road,...

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Huynh Thanh Dien hopes to continue receiving support from central units in the area to further improve the transport infrastructure network, especially in mountainous and rural areas.